Marshall County West Virginia Historical Markers

Nearby mine supplied coal to large Wheeling Steel mill. An explosion here, 28 April 1924, resulted in third worst mine disaster in state history. 119 miners, many natives of Poland, Italy and Greece, were killed. There were no survivors. Led to mine . . . — — Map (db m59838) HM

Marshall County
(North Face)
Formed in 1835 from Ohio. Named for Chief Justice John Marshall. In Marshall County is Grave Creek Mound, first among remains left by the unknown race which lived in the Ohio Valley centuries before the . . . — — Map (db m57250) HM

Marshall County Formed in 1835 from Ohio. Named for Chief Justice John Marshall. In Marshall County is Grave Creek Mound, first among remains left by the unknown race which lived in the Ohio Valley centuries before the white men came. Ohio . . . — — Map (db m67104) HM

Site of Indian fort built in 1779 on land of George Beeler. In 1782, an attack of Mohawk and Shawnee Indians was repulsed by its defenders, among whom were Martin and Lewis Wetzel, the celebrated scouts and Indian fighters. — — Map (db m21076) HM

Born 3 June 1856, in 1885 was first licensed woman physician in state; opened private practice then hospital in Wheeling, 1892. Jones was active in temperance and women's suffrage; and promoted establishment of state sanitariums in Terra Alta & . . . — — Map (db m57247) HM

Side A
The Cockayne Farm
The Cockayne farmhouse was built by Bennett Cockayne around 1850. His son Samuel A.J. was renowned as a sheep breeder. Dubbed Glendale by Samuel's wife Hannah, the farm was the namesake for Glen Dale when it . . . — — Map (db m102040) HM

John Wetzel and sons, Lewis, Jacob, Martin, John, and George, came with the Zanes in 1769 and built a fort. The Wetzels became famous scouts and Indian fighters. In 1787, the elder Wetzel was killed by Indians at Baker’s Station. — — Map (db m21075) HM

Near this spot occurred the massacre, by Indians, of Captain William Foreman and Twenty of his men on September 27th, 1777.--•--
This marker erected by Wheeling Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution. — — Map (db m71009) HM WM

In the "Narrows," September 27, 1777, Capt. Wm. Forman (Foreman) and his Hampshire County troops were ambushed by Indians; 21 were killed. They had joined Fort Henry garrison, located on the Ohio at Wheeling to protect western settlements. — — Map (db m71010) HM

Rescued the body of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin H. Hodgson from within the enemy lines; brought up ammunition and encouraged the men in the most exposed positions under heavy fire in the Little Big Horn River fight.
Sergeant Benjamin C. Criswell . . . — — Map (db m20503) HM

In tribute to Howard D. Blankenship, who made all the arrangements to have both cannons retrofitted to their original. His project started 1977 and was completed 1984.
The northern piece was manufactured by N.P. Ames Foundry, Springfield . . . — — Map (db m20394) HM

This world-famous burial mound was
built by the Adena people sometime
before the Christian Era. The mound
was originally 69 feet high, 295 feet
in diameter, and was encircled by a
moat. There were many mounds in the
area-hence the city's . . . — — Map (db m54886) HM

The “Spirit of St. Louis,” piloted by Charles Lindberg landed in Moundsville .1 mile west at Langin Field, Aug. 4, 1927. Seen by 140,000 locally, he led aviation into the rocket era, creating the U.S. air transportation network. — — Map (db m20418) HM

Erected By
The County Court
of Marshall County,
West Virginia
To Commemorate the Service
Men and Women of Marshall
County in the World War
1917 - 1919
The tumult and the shouting dies-
Lord God of Hosts - Be with us yet . . . — — Map (db m54933) HM

Moundsville. Named for Grave Creek Mound. This mound, 900 feet around, 70 feet high, is the largest conical mound in America. The inscribed stone found in it has never been deciphered. Near by was the Indian fort built by Joseph Tomlinson.
. . . — — Map (db m20373) HM

Dedicated to the Recipients of the
Nations oldest military decoration
The Purple Heart
Combat Veterans Wounded1782 Military Order of
The Purple Heart 1932
My stone is red for
The blood they shed.
The . . . — — Map (db m54934) HM

At Rosby’s Rock (5 Mi. E.) Dec. 24, 1852, the B. & O. Railroad joined the Baltimore and Wheeling with the first continuous railroad from the Atlantic to the Ohio, after such engineering feats as building 11 tunnels and 113 bridges. — — Map (db m21074) HM

Established, 1866, A prison for
men and women convicted of
felonies until prison for wom-
en was established at Pence
Springs, 1947. Capital criminals
were hanged here, 1889-1950.
Electric chair used until death
penalty was abolished. . . . — — Map (db m54890) HM

In 1772, George Rogers
Clark explored the Ohio
and Great Kanawha rivers
He stayed the winter here,
planted and harvested a
crop, and carried out much
surveying. Riflemen from
the region aided him in
winning the Northwest in . . . — — Map (db m54811) HM